Waterfox uses Firefox code ... sooner or later their code, when updated to follow The Internet, and changed by Mozilla will change something and that your extension(s) may no longer work?

Should not be an issue, particularly, with current Waterfox.

Certainly could be an issue if Waterfox (any browser that currently supports Legacy extensions, like SeaMonkey, for that matter) follows the Quantum "path" - unless he is (they are) able to somehow maintain the pieces that Mozilla has pulled out (which might be just about, everything).

> Yes well said Brummelchen, Its all about keeping Gecko safe and up to date. Yes, still surprised people use those systems, very dangerous indeed.

Both OS can still be updated with official fixes. XP with wpos till 2019 and Vista with Server 2008 till 2020. Because MS makes it so easy I wouldn't even call it illegal only unethical. This does not add the added security features in later releases but no system is 100% safe.When the market share becomes smaller and smaller the crooks loose interest too and newer expolits won't even work. If someone targets you directly you can run any OS you want and you will probably loose.

Mozilla can go to the dumpster and I won't care right now. Looking at the market share they do exactly this

It is not so hard to secure the forks. What is hard is to add new features and this is where they will probably fail. Run even an older ad or script blocker and you should be mostly safe.

FRG

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@Therube, yes good examples, but Pale Moon always seemed to have issues, don't really hear anything about Waterfox, the features thing I agree, can be a problem for the forks to deal with. @frg I don't think you can base anything on market share alone, but i do agree, in a way that Firefox must rise again, hopefully that will continue to happen with WR and other parts of the browser. We shall see.

Oh we break comm-central today with no warningl? Soo (not) sorry but they just need to do this and that and everything will be fine.

So I really want them off the table despite thinking that a lot fo the guys and gals working for them are great. Maybe something good will come out of it when they finally fail. And I think they will fail.

With Webrender they will probably find out how bad current grahipcs drivers really are. There is not one brand for Linux and Windows both which I would recommend. AMD for Linux, Nvidia for Windows and Intel maybe for Linux but for sure not Windows. macOS seems the only one which was immune but Apple seems to slip here too.